Two arrested in Sausalito bar fight; alleged victim could lose eye

Two men were arrested early Monday in a Sausalito bar fight that could cost a 66-year-old man one of his eyes, police said.

Kyle Phillip Algeo, 25, of Sausalito was booked into Marin County Jail on suspicion of mayhem, assault, battery and public intoxication. He remained in custody in lieu of $50,000 bail.

Scott Newcomb, 35, of Oakland was booked on suspicion of assault and public intoxication. His bail was set at $50,000, and he was released pending a court hearing.

The fight occurred at about 2 a.m. Monday at Smitty's Bar at 214 Caledonia St., said Sausalito police Lt. Kurtis Skoog. Police arrived to find Algeo, Newcomb and the other man lying in the street and bleeding from head injuries.

Witnesses told police that Algeo knocked the 66-year-old man down for reasons unknown and repeatedly punched him in the face, Skoog said. When others tried to intervene, Newcomb, an associate of Algeo, allegedly assaulted them.

The alleged victim, a Sausalito resident, suffered fractures to his face and his right eye socket. He was taken to Marin General Hospital, and it was still unknown Monday night whether doctors would be able to save his eye, said Sausalito police Sgt. Bill Fraass.

"They had to actually cut the optical nerve to reduce the swelling," Fraass said.

The case is Algeo's second assault arrest for a bar fight in less than two years. He was one of two men prosecuted in a 2010 bar brawl at BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse in Terra Linda, where three men suffered stab wounds and one went into a coma.

Algeo was charged with assault and battery, claimed self-defense, and was acquitted at trial.

His co-defendant and rival, Dante Lawrence Depillo, also claimed self-defense. After the jury acquitted him of one charge and deadlocked on two others, he took a plea deal and admitted to assault with a deadly weapon.